Sight & Hearing Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
410724037
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6516452546
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,426
Expenses
$63,954
Assets
$48,711
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Charles R Stone (President)
  • Kathryn J Webb (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Charles R Stone (President)
  • Barbara Horton (Treasurer)
  • Jason Leyendecker (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The primary exempt purpose of the Sight & Hearing Association is to identify and prevent vision and hearing loss, in partnership with other professional and community organizations, by providing screenings, education and research.

What it reported doing in 2024

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: Provided vision and hearing screening to several hundred children and adults in Minnesota and financial assistance for eye exams and eyeglasses, issued in the form of vision vouchers to low-income children screened by Sight & Hearing Association health staff.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.